Writing Off IRS Audit Cost?

If you are audited by the IRS, can you write off the cost incurred during the audit, such as bills from your cpa?
I’m a loan officer who is 1099′d. I am currently undergoing an IRS tax audit for the years of 2004 and 2005. I have probably paid my cpa in the neighborhood of [...]

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Will Filing Amended Return Trigger IRS Audit?

I have a small restaurant business.
Some of my previous tax returns were totally off. Gross sales and COGS were off by 110%, and lots of tax deductions were not included in the returns. This is a family business and my brother did the tax returns and totally screwed up. The old tax return paid the [...]

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Does the IRS Call People They are Going to Audit?

I had a message on my phone and so I called the 1-800 number on my voicemail, it answered the IRS. Evidently the IRS called me. Could it be that the IRS wants to audit me? Should I get a hold of a tax attorney? I think it is for real. [...]

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How Would the IRS Know If I Am Reporting All Income Or Not?

Question about IRS audit if I have a business and multiple bank accounts

I have a small business, I’m the only employee. I have business accounts at multiple banks. Sometimes, I withdraw money from one bank account and deposit some or all of it in another bank account. If I were to get audited [...]

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IRS Gaining Access to Swiss Bank UBS Accounts

The Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Justice today announced the successful negotiation of an agreement that will result in the IRS receiving an unprecedented amount of information on United States holders of accounts at the Swiss bank UBS.

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